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Shawl3097/7

Woman's mantle. Colourful, patterned, woven wool shawl. The outside vertical thirds are bright patterned panels, the centre third is dark brown with a seam down the centre where the two halves were stitched together. The colourful panels have matching patterns in different colours. The patterns are made up of red vertical stripes of varying widths, some of which are patterned with vertical swirls, horizontal zigzags, wave motifs, and checkers in other colours.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
alpaca wool fibre and aniline dye
Made in
Macha, Potosi, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Poncho3097/6

Dark brown, rectangular, woven wool poncho with a neck slit in the centre. Constructed of two rectangular panels sewn together in the middle. The stitch that connects the panels is a zigzag made up of long sections of red, turquoise, and purple yarn. Weave texture is tight and un-patterned, with two horizontal red stripes across the top and bottom of each of the front and back rectangular panels. The red stripes are about 6 cm wide and have a dark blue line through the centre. The outer edge is a separately woven red strip with a red yarn fringe, stitched on with red yarn.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
alpaca wool fibre and dye
Made in
Pacajes, La Paz, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Poncho3097/1

Striped, rectangular, woven wool poncho with a neck slit in the centre. Constructed of two rectangular panels sewn together in the middle. Weave texture is tight and un-patterned, with decoration consisting of a series of horizontal lines of varying widths in dark red, dark blue, black, orange, light beige, dark brown, yellow-brown, and light brown. The outer edge is a separately woven strip with red, orange, and light brown stripes, stitched on with light beige and red string. The edge has a short, uneven fringe made of red, orange, brown, and light beige fibres. Corners are rounded by folding back.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
alpaca wool fibre and dye
Made in
Tarabuco, Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Veil3097/23

Dyed gauze and lace cloth with plain weave technique in borders. Rectangular shape with three types of diagonal bands: waves, feline faces opposing to each other and lines. Short border has geometric fish; long borders have bird motif in brown on cream ground, and cream on brown.

Culture
Chancay
Material
camelid wool fibre, dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Lima, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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